Cloudy skies, roads and shadows

larger landscapes

Still playing with shadows, contrast, morning and evening light and loose, big brush work.  Working sometimes, sometimes not so much . . .

oh just all sorts really!

Pretty loose and playful and enjoying the shadows

 gradually getting there with this second double portrait of  M and F:  think I might have turned a corner but we'll see.

 

back to the Ilparpa trees: still playing with light

 and some more aerials. . . .wanting to do some aerial perspective (to do with colour and tone) here

Finlay and Martin

quirky adolescence

kids, yes, oldies, yes . . . something very tricky and engaging about adolescents .  . . in the middle of from here to there . . .

14

 Still not happy with M on right, skin tones, form, expression,the lot.  Also playing with background colours too to create right feeling.  Really not sure if this one will resolve.

 In contrast, this one is going well.  Made some changes to F's profile and M's eye, and really enjoying just bring them each forward. 

... and the Grapefruit Tree

people and light

Enjoying the foliage of the P and B pic.   Still working on M's nose and grin below

people and red places

leaves and skin tones

Grapefruit tree kids

 A fun one I think: colours, composition, lovely kids . . . all good

 Enjoying the foliage for the first time in a portrait!  So, just always have grapefruit tree leaves . . .

 And a new background for Geoff . . . needed something that didn't argue as much for attention, but still keeping the lines of the hills around Mt Nancy.  The words are from his stories of growing up in and around Mt Nancy with a little bit on what he did later on.  Still working on it, but I think I'm happier with it than the conventional background that it had originally.

new landscapes

Bigger version of a couple of little studies I did a month or so ago.  Love the movement in those curves.

 
 Trees and a bush track from the air. So pretty.

 These above are the ranges I see every morning on my run down Ilparpa Rd towards Temple Bar

This below is the left hand side of Simpsons Gap from the cycle path . . . earlyish morning again.

 

Do really like the affect in this one

 Still working on M's grin and F's chin!

Still all sorts

oh my word what am I painting today?

An eclectic weekend of painting I suppose one could say.  Very satisfying in a slightly strange way.